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engineer

Definition

  • noun: a person who has scientific training and who designs and builds complicated products, machines, systems, or structures
  • noun: a member of a military group devoted to 'engineering' work
  • verb: to plan, build, or manage (something) by using scientific methods
  • verb: to lay out, construct, or manage as an engineer
  • usually used as '(be) engineered'

Examples

  • The telephone 'engineer' [=('US') 'repairman'] soon got my phone working again.

  • Design 'engineers' are working on ways to make the cars run more efficiently.

  • The crops were made resistant to disease by 'genetic engineering'.

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